German von Bohn

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August German von Bohn (born February 25, 1812 in Heilbronn , † January 23, 1899 in Stuttgart ) was a German history painter .

Life

Bohn was a son of the businessman Louis Bohn in Stuttgart and his wife Lisette, née. Rheinwald. He first studied law at the University of Tübingen . He became a member of the Comment fraternity in 1830 and was one of the founders of the Corps Suevia in 1831 . In 1833 he switched to painting. In Paris in 1835 he became a student of Henri Lehmann and Ary Scheffer . After a period in Rome from 1840 to 1843, he returned to Paris, where he was made Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1853 . In 1867 he settled in Stuttgart , where he was court painter .

Works by Bohns can be found in museums in Germany, Italy and France. In France he also created murals for churches.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of death after entry on German von Bohn in the personal database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography
  2. ↑ Suevia-Tübingen 1831-1931 . Volume 2: Members, Tübingen 1931, p. 2 (No. 7).
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 197 , 186

literature

  • Nekrolog in Kunstchronik, weekly for arts and crafts, NF 10, 1899, Col. 216.
  • Tino Mager: Bohn, German von (Guermann Bohn) . In: Bénédicte Savoy and France Nerlich (eds.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 28-30.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 84–85.

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personal data
SURNAME Bohn, German from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1899
Place of death Stuttgart